HMS Hoste (1916)

HMS Hoste was an Admiralty type destroyer leader built for the Royal Navy during World War I. She was one of eight ships of the Marks I and II Shakespeare-class. Hoste was ordered in April 1916, laid down at Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company's Greenock shipyard in May 1916, launched on 16 June 1917, and completed in November 1917.

As a destroyer leader, Hoste was larger and faster than typical destroyers of the period, and intended to lead flotillas of destroyers. She was armed with five 4.7 inch (120 mm) guns and two triple 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tube mounts.

During World War I, Hoste served with the Grand Fleet and participated in anti-submarine patrols and convoy escort duties. On 21 December 1918, while serving in the Baltic during the British intervention in the Russian Civil War, Hoste struck a mine off Kotlin Island and sank. The explosion killed Commander Claud Congreve Algernon Romilly, her commanding officer.